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| Author | Albert Lord |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Epic poetry, oral tradition |
| Published | Cambridge, MA |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 1960 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 9780674975736 (2019 edition) |
| Website | https://chs.harvard.edu/book/lord-albert-bates-the-singer-of-tales/ |
The Singer of Tales is a book by Albert Lord that formulates oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic. Lord builds on the research of Milman Parry and their joint work recording Balkan guslar poets.[1] It was published in 1960.
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